I came up with the following 'git-diffall' script to open all diff files immediately, rather than default behavior of opening them one at a time in serial. for name in $(git diff --name-only $1); do git difftool $1 $name & done I blogged the details at http://blog.codefarm.co.nz/2009/08/git-diff-and-difftool-open-all-files.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html